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| Using information and communication technology (ICT) to ease problems ranging from the scarcity of water to the lack of electricity in developing countries was at the heart of a summit convened by the Commonwealth in New Delhi, India.The Commonwealth sees bridging the digital divide as key to meeting Millennium Development Goals whose centrepiece is halving poverty by 2015 |
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April 18th, 2007 @ 4:23PM |
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ICT can ‘empower’ individuals, at least that is what is advocated.
Venki lives in rural Andhara Pradesh a province in India, she has seen the advent of roads, cars, telephones and television in her short thirty years of life, she understands the advantages and disadvantages and the illusion of access they give her. In a land of faulty cables, unpredictable electric supply, her children drink milk on the days when bus doesn’t run, because on those days the milk from the village can’t be taken to the city. On the days the electricity fails she watches the traditionally performed story-telling in the village square instead of the distant ‘Bold and Beautiful’. Obviously the technology gave her the opportunity to have choices but ironically it’s the failure of the technology which in reality provides her with more quality and quantity in her choices.What, then is the process by which Venki is empowered?
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April 18th, 2007 @ 4:14PM |
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